Paul Brown (Poet)
Paul Brown, poet and publisher, was born in Lambeth, London, in October 1949.
Associated with the British Poetry Revival in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he ran the independent poetry publishing imprint Transgravity Press, which published work by Barry MacSweeney among others, as well as translations of Dadaist and Surrealist poetry, including Benjamin Peret,[1] followed later by Actual Size Press (publishing Tom Raworth) and Pre-Texts. He also co-edited the short-lived journal Other Times. Along with fellow poet/artist Allen Fisher and others, he took part in the English Fluxus events (Fluxshoe) in 1972/73.[2]
After attending Essex University, he taught the poetry course at Goldsmiths' College in the 1980s.[3] His poetry is represented in at least 16 booklets and two books published in the 1970s and 1980s (listed below). The third major collection of work written around this time was not published until 2012, under the title A Cabin in the Mountains.[4] His work was also included in the anthology The New British Poetry.[5]
Earning his living as a bookseller in London from the 1980s and later in Brighton, where he ran the Studio Bookshop, Paul Brown moved to Ramsgate, Kent, in 2018, where he currently resides.
Bibliography[edit]
Meetings and Pursuits (Skyline Press, New York & London, 1978)
Masker (Galloping Dog Press, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1982)
A Cabin in the Mountains (Reality Street, Hastings, 2012)[6]
References[edit]
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- ↑ Robert Hampson & Peter Barry, New British Poetries: The scope of the possible (Manchester University Press, 1993), p9
- ↑ https://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1973-Fluxshoe-programme.jpg
- ↑ Robert Sheppard: The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents, 1950-2000 (Liverpool University Press, 2005), p166
- ↑ http://intercapillaryspace.blogspot.com/2012/12/paul-brown-cabin-in-mountains.html
- ↑ The New British Poetry 1968-88, ed. G Allnutt, Fred D'Aguiar, Ken Edwards, Eric Mottram (Paladin Grafton Books, 1988), pp274-276
- ↑ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2012/12/so-many-registers-rediscovering-paul-browns-a-cabin-in-the-mountains
